Vilas Sopan Wadekar has been appointed as the new Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC), succeeding Subhash Chand Gupta, who retires on January 31. Wadekar, currently serving as Director (Technical) at MRVC, is a 1991-batch officer of the Indian Railway Service of Engineers (IRSE).

An alumnus of Amravati University, Wadekar topped across all the branches in Civil Engineering and was awarded three gold medals. He holds a Master’s degree in Civil Structural Engineering with first-class distinction. With over three decades of experience in project planning, procurement, operations, and administration within Indian Railways and its Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), Wadekar has contributed significantly to several landmark railway infrastructure projects.